dana bash is with us. john berman is with us as well. he's going to update us on some of the big stories. >> demonstrators in texas trying to block the keystone xl pipeline. others suspended themselves from a 50 foot tree. police used pepper spray to haul off four of the demonstrators. >>> vice president joe bide and and wife jill biden welcoming a group of wounded warriors to the naval observatory in washington for an early thanksgiving. the 26 guests are patients of the nearby walter reed national military medical center. they were selected because they can't make it home for thanksgiving with their families this year. >>> a federal judge in california has ruled that the city of santa monica can really ban a nativity scene that's been on display in palisades park for the last 60 years. in recent years, atheists protested against the theme so in june the city council voted to ban all private displays. but backers of the nativity scene, they sued. and the judge says, until the lawsuit is decided the city can go ahead with its nativity sc